What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Karajan and Callas in Verdi Il Trovatore

[vers la flamme]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schönberg Chor, many excellent soloists

First listen. Any love for this recording? It sounds amazing.

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schönberg Chor, many excellent soloists

First listen. Any love for this recording? It sounds amazing.

Yes I certainly do love that recording

[vers la flamme]

Yes I certainly do love that recording

I listened to the whole first part. Usually I don't have that much patience for the SMP. It sounded soooo good! I'll have to listen to the other discs very soon.

[amw]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schönberg Chor, many excellent soloists

First listen. Any love for this recording? It sounds amazing.

First one I heard and still a favourite. (Chose it in large part because of the soloists, who don't disappoint.) Granted, I only listen to the SMP a couple of times a year.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith Symphony in E flat, Lenny conducting




Sarge

Love it so much!

[Mirror Image]

I have now moved onto Disc 9 of the Compositions of Isang Yun 10 CD box set:

Concerto for Flute and Small Orchestra
Roswitha Staege, flute
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Saarbrücken
Hans Zender

Salomo for Alto Flute
Roswitha Staege, alto flute

Gong-Hu for Harp and String Orchestra
Ursula Holliger, harp
Camerata Bern
Heinz Holliger

In Balance for Harp
Ursula Holliger

[Operafreak]

Schumann: Kinderszenen & Kreisleriana- Argerich

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night:

Bloch
America, An Epic Rhapsody
Symphony of the Air
Leopold Stokowski

[Que]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schönberg Chor, many excellent soloists

First listen. Any love for this recording? It sounds amazing.

I started out with Harnoncourt's 1st recording, but this in certain ways different make over is another favourite. My first pick in modern sound.

[Que]

I had a recording by Stefano Albarello and his Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua on the shelves, and have started exploring on Spotify.



http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/sym95141.htm

I think if you're interested in Italian Medieval repertoire, Albarello is your man.

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.

The Berlin Harpsichord Concertos, Volume I.

D minor, B flat major, F minor.

Anthony Halstead, Harpsichord & Direction.
The Hanover Band.
Recorded in 1995.

Well performed and very good sound. I love these concertos, they are detailed and excellently structured. Very appealing. Most of the stuff from that period is OOP, so I am glad I have them almost all.

Reviews:

BBC Music Magazine: "The London Bach, even before he came to England. The concertos overflow with youthful inventiveness some are whimsical, some are exciting.  Wonderfully balanced.. sound." The Daily Telegraph v.19.7.97: "Here everything is is irresistible: the performances and the sound are of the very highest order." Fanfare 12.97: "Excellent performances, which ideally combine the driving dynamics and intensity of the outer movements.

[Operafreak]

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Lucia Popp / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt

[Que]

Johann Christian Bach.

The Berlin Harpsichord Concertos, Volume I.

Anthony Halstead, Harpsichord & Direction. The Hanover Band.

Well performed and very good sound. I love these concertos, they are detailed and excellently structured. Very appealing. Most of the stuff from that period is OOP, so I am glad I have them almost all.

I went through the whole series on Spotify a while ago - great stuff! 

[vandermolen]

Before work (VW 'Job' Bostock)
An underrated Munich performance - unlike 'Gramophone' I rate it very highly.
The couplings are well worth having as well.

[Harry]

Giovanni Bassano.

Amor Sacro-Amor Profano.

Sacred Concerts and Fantasies by Bassano and his diminutions of works by Marenzio, Palestrina, de Rore, & Striggio.

Monica Mauch, Soprano.
Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart, Henning Wiegräbe.

A beauty!

For the knowledge of the ornamentation practice of the late 16th century, the publications of Giovanni Bassano (1551 / 1552-1617) with their motets and madrigals by Gabrieli, Palestrina, Marenzio and others ornamented by him are of inestimable value. His own vocal works, on the other hand, have been neglected until now, some of which still have to wait for a purely scholarly reappraisal. Monika Mauch and the Capricornus Ensemble Stuttgart under the direction of Henning Wiegräbe are thus doing valuable pioneering work when they finally let Bassano's own music be heard in this recording alongside the well-known diminished foreign works. Bassano's sacred concertos and fantasies show him to be an important contemporary of Gabrieli, who, like the latter, must be counted among the most important Venetian composers of the late 16th century.

[Operafreak]

Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri- Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gijs Leenaars

[Florestan]

A sleeper.

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - 3 Petites Liturgies.

[Traverso]

Live from the Concertgebouw  1978 & 1979

CD2